NEW DELHI / WAYANAD — A Nigerian national identified as Mohammed Jamiu Abdur Raheem, a key operative in an international drug trafficking network supplying narcotics to Kerala and Karnataka, has been arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. The arrest was carried out by a special investigation team of the Kerala Excise…
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Police have filed a chargesheet against 40 residents of the Union Territory, most of them hailing from Pulwama district, for allegedly crossing the Line of Control (LoC) into Pakistan for illegal arms and terror training and subsequently failing to return to India. Charges and Allegations According to police officials,…
HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, the city’s longest-standing and once-influential pro-democracy force, has formally voted to dissolve itself, marking a watershed moment in the territory’s political history. The decision reflects deepening pressure from Beijing and the practical collapse of organized political opposition under Hong Kong’s security-focused governance system. At an extraordinary general meeting…
By Adinath — compiled from reports in Phys.org, Popular Science— December 15, 2025 Researchers in southern Brazil have formally described a previously unknown species of miniature frog that is bright orange, no larger than a pencil tip, and hidden in the damp leaf litter of cloud forests in the Serra do Quiriri mountain range. The…
NEW DELHI — The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced the appointment of Bihar minister Nitin Nabin as its National Working President, a move widely seen as part of the party’s effort to introduce younger leadership at the national level. The decision was taken by the BJP’s Parliamentary Board and is being viewed as…
NEW DELHI — Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), asserting that the Opposition would defeat their “ideology of power” and remove the Narendra Modi government from office. Addressing…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM / KERALA — December 2025:The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) delivered a commanding performance in the 2025 Kerala local body elections, emerging as the largest force across rural and urban civic bodies and fuelling its momentum ahead of the 2026 Kerala Assembly elections. Political analysts say the results signal significant public dissatisfaction with the…
NEW DELHI — December 2025:The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) significant electoral gains in Kerala have triggered widespread discussion at the national level, with senior BJP leaders and Union ministers publicly congratulating the party’s Kerala unit for what they described as a “historic breakthrough” in a traditionally difficult political landscape. The BJP–NDA’s…
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — December 14, 2025 — A mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s famous Bondi Beach has resulted in at least 12 people killed and nearly 30 injured, in what New South Wales police have classified as a terrorist attack targeting the Jewish community. The incident occurred on Sunday evening during the…
GAZA CITY, December 13, 2025 — The Israeli military announced on Saturday that it conducted a **targeted strike in Gaza City that killed senior Hamas commander **Raed Saad (also spelled Raad Saad), described as one of the key architects of the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel and head of Hamas’s weapons production operations. In…
